Eagle1951
Apr 24, 2015Explorer
Dinghy Battery
How often to you start dinghy to keep battery charged. Dealer installed towing harness and said cars electrical bypassed but car battery is dead when stopping for gas. It's a Honda CR-V/
Sooboy wrote:lryrob9301 wrote:
The underlying problem with the battery going dead is Honda uses a minimum capacity battery in the CRV. Replace the OEM 420CCA battery with a group 24 battery of at least 800CCA. You will probably have to replace the battery box with a Odyssey unit to fit the larger battery (about $30). I've done this for a couple of friends that tow late model CRV's and cured their dead battery problems.
What a great idea, lryrob. The CRV battery is practically a motorcycle battery! Is the Odyssey box a direct replacement for the CRV box?
I had a charge line installed on our CRV, but the larger battery would likely have sufficed.